A Guide To Buying A Mattress

January 4, 2017

It took us awhile but one of the most important things to us during the process to ‘green’ and detoxify our home was our mattress. If you think about it, you spend an average of 56 hours per week (at least) using that thing – it needs to be a good one. I did a lot of research when looking for our mattress that we currently have thanks to Tuft & Needle, so I wanted to share my findings!

THINGS I LEARNED WHEN RESEARCHING MATTRESSES:

Mattresses are typically super marked up.

Some mattresses can be marked up 6-12 times past what they’re worth. This is true for many furniture stores, but mattresses especially. Sales people need to make commission and storefronts have to meet rent, so you have an increase in price when the mattress itself isn’t worth nearly what you pay.

The materials most mattresses are made of aren’t ideal.

You can read tons more about this here, but some mattresses are made of latex (which isn’t ideal and pretty outdated), memory foam (which results in hotter sleep at night because you sink into it), springs (which aren’t supportive at all) I mean really when have you laid on a spring mattress and thought, “man I’m super comfortable right now” ha! Lastly some mattresses are made of egg-crate foam which I’ve personally never felt was comfortable and apparently you’re paying for a mattress yet getting 50% less material! So silly.

Layers = glue = chemicals.

No, this isn’t a math lesson, it’s just common sense. The mattresses that have layers of materials are glued together with adhesive that gives off chemicals and also reduces airflow.

Buying online > Buying in store.

More math, I know… I hate equations, not sure why I’m using them, but really. The reason I prefer to buy online is that you can get it much cheaper. You basically cut out the middle man and reduce emissions and transportation as well, which helps our environment! I’m all for anything that is sustainable! Also, many mattresses are made outside of the U.S. which means we have to import the materials before even transporting them to the location where they’re sold.

We’ve had our mattress for around 60 days now. Tuft & Needle sent it to me to review for you, and to be completely honest I’ve wanted to really use it and sleep on it before writing this review. I never endorse products that I don’t fully believe in or use myself. It’s important to me to be honest and transparent with you.

Oh my gosh, we are in need of a new mattress but I so nervous about getting another one! It's kind of hard when you're used to what you have and it's "worn in", you know? Although it's starting to get too worn in, lol. I have heard so many good things about Tuft and Needle though, maybe I need to look into them more!